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Capellini
Last week I went to Trader Joe’s to acquire provisions for my stay in Ohio. One of the supplies I need to get is pasta, specifically, spaghetti, so I can make delightful spaghetti with lemon and basil. This Trader Joe’s is of course laid out a little bit different from my local one, so it…
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Minor Turbulence
I’m back in Ohio, this time for ICU rotation, and the week got off to a rough start beginning with the landing. On the first day I showed up naked; that is to say, without my phone, which really got in the way of storing my new coworkers’ numbers for future communication as I stumbled…
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A Match Made to Profession
You finished medical school. Time to get a job, right? Wrong! Finishing allopathic med school gets one an MD but does not allow one to actually practice medicine. For that you have to complete what is more or less a paid apprenticeship, termed a “residency” because it involves essentially living at the hospital for the…
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Occupancy
Rachel and I have been looking for a new place to live because, well, the rent. One of the options we’ve been considering is finding a house and sharing it with our friend Liz and another guy, Matt, a friend of a friend who has been looking for a place as well. After months of…
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Election Day Comedy: Cover that Obama mural!
Local Republicans went to court to have a judge order a mural of President Obama covered up at the Ben Franklin Elementary School polling place in the Northeast Philadelphia. via philadelphia.cbslocal.com “I cannot safely cast my ballot for Mitt with that Marxist’s painted eyes watching me!”
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Some Settling May Have Occurred During Shipping
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Tracking the Horserace
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Preparing to Chop Onions
Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.